The WorkingFamiliesParty announced today the hiring of a prominent law firm to review the party's operations and ties to two organizations in the wake of a lawsuit and concerns raised by the City Campaign Finance Board. According to an email from party leaders, the WFP hired Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom conduct a "thorough review" of the party's...
The WorkingFamiliesParty of New York has hired Judith Kaye to review its practices regarding New York campaign finance laws. Kaye is in private practice now but she was recently a justice on New York state’s highest state court, the Court of Appeals. See this story.
On November 3, the voters of Hartford, Connecticut, elected four members to the School Board. No party is permitted to run more than three nominees. The expectation was that the WorkingFamiliesParty would probably elect one member, as had happened in 2005. This is because the dominant Democratic Party was only [...]
On November 3, the WorkingFamiliesParty won two seats with its own nominees in Bridgeport, Connecticut, for the School Board. All local elections in Connecticut are partisan elections. Five seats were up, but parties were only permitted to run a maximum of three candidates. This law is meant to guarantee that [...]
Thanks to Third Party Watch for this link to New York city election returns that include all candidates who were on the ballot. The link is from New York city’s Channel One TV station. The WorkingFamiliesParty ran its own nominees for City Council in some districts, and in both the 34th district and [...]
The WorkingFamiliesParty made serious inroads last night in its first foray into city races -- but it wasn't all good news for the small, union-backed party. On the one hand, the WFP was credited with propelling Bill de Blasio to public advocate...
... of Weather Underground style Marxism, antisemitism masked as anti-Israelism, and the Democrat Party, as seen through the lens and mind of a self proclaimed anarchist, Thomas Good. This group of hard core Socialists, Marxists, Anarchists, and Democrats must be very pleased that they scored this win in Staten Island. 2) Debi’s race may be just for a local seat on a city council, but one only...
142,817 VOTES FOR BLOOMBERG ON COLUMN C DELIVERS MARGIN TO CITY'S FIRST INDEPENDENT MAYOR New York, NY-The Independence Party vote for Mike Bloomberg yesterday broke numerous records and re-enforced its ongoing mandate for independent governance and non-partisan reform. Unofficial returns released by the Board of Elections put the IP total on Column "C" at 142,817 votes, nearly 26%...
... points of defeating Democrat Bill Owens. Hoffman had zero name recognition. National Republican Party officials dumped nearly $1 million into the race on behalf of radical leftist GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava, who then turned around, endorsed Owens and siphoned off 5 percent of the vote with her name still on the ballot after she dropped out. Conservatives’ money went to pay for specious...
142,817 VOTES FOR BLOOMBERG ON COLUMN C DELIVERS MARGIN TO CITY’S FIRST INDEPENDENT MAYOR New York, NY-The Independence Party vote for Mike Bloomberg yesterday broke numerous records and re-enforced its ongoing mandate for independent governance and non-partisan reform. Unofficial returns released by the Board of Elections put the IP total on Column “C” at 142,817 votes, nearly...
How can we make a City that works for everyone?That’s the question the WorkingFamiliesParty asks when deciding which policies and candidates to support...
The background: The suit itself - I'm working to get a copy of it sent to me - alleges that WFP (which is, of course, a front for ACORN) is violating campaign finance laws by having WFP front group Data...
After months of press scrutiny and a lawsuit alleging improper ties between the WorkingFamiliesParty and its for-profit field operations arm, Data & Field Services, the labor-backed party has retained the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom to conduct a thorough review of the structure and relationship between the WFP, WFO and [...]
It was reported that Tom Barrett was conversing with Patrick Gaspard about running for Governor. Gaspard is working in Obama's White House, and has lots of interesting connections . Gaspard, a longtime operative for ACORN and one of its partisan arms, New York's WorkingFamiliesParty, currently holds the title of White House political affairs director, the same title Karl Rove...
... does not like or care about the military. You know if this was even one of his ACORN/SEIU/Working FamiliesParty stormtroopers, he would have reacted differently. You saw how he acted over the Gates affair (stupidly) - and the contrast between his response to the killing of the abortion doctor and another killing, that of a military recruiter. He's uncomfortable, and incapable of...
